Maj Richard A. Oldham

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Major Richard A. Oldham (1787-1842) was for many years an officer in the U.S. Army. He married Eliza Martin, a daughter of Major Thomas Martin, the first Commandant of Newport Barracks, Ky. Their eight children were Jane who married William Wetmore, of New York; William Henry; Thomas M.; Catherine who married John W. Edgerton, of Ohio; Worden P.; Penelope Abigail (1825-1908); Mary who married Dr. A. S. Robertson, of Nashville; and George L. Oldham who may have died during the Civil War. The latter married Harriett Josephine Miller (1835-), daughter of John Adam Miller. Their son, Alfred Violett Oldham (1862-1932), was clerk of the city court in Louisville. Penelope Abigail Oldham (1825-1908) married William Alfred Violett (1812-68), of New Orleans. There five children were Atwood (1847-1932), Mignonette (1857-1910), Ella (1850-1904), Lilly and Edward R. Violett (1856-1919). Atwood Violett (1847-1932) was a prominent broker in New Orleans and New York. He married in 1887, Olga Quentell, of Liverpool, Eng., and his children were Thelma (1892-1971) who married William Macy Brewster; and Rear Admiral Quentell Violett (1898-1984) who served in WWI and WWII and married Geraldine Schleussner (1911-89). Mignonette Violett (1857-1910) married financier and philanthropist Charles Smith Whelan (1850-1910), of Philadelphia, and their children were Violett (1880-1904) who married Malcolm Scollay Greenough (1876-1903)(Harvard 1898), and Charles Smith Whelan, Jr. (1883-1904).

Major Richard Oldham reportedly died in Habersham, Ga.

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